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Judanne @judsi.bsky.social · 8h

The gross irony of people descended from illegal immigrants demanding no more immigration!

Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 8h

The NSW coroner has described the spate of Indigenous deaths in custody as "profoundly distressing" as the state records the most ever in a single year.

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NSW coroner makes rare comment on 'distressing' Indigenous deaths in custody

State Coroner Teresa O'Sullivan has made rare public comments to raise what she calls the "entrenched over-representation" of Indigenous prisoners.

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Ed Dugan @edugan.bsky.social · 2d

@robertarnol.bsky.social
I won’t believe those two bottles are under a table until I read Tony Abbotts take on if this event even took place.

Tasting notes*- overwhelming smell of imposter syndrome with lingering front of tongue taste of onions to make one gag
* tonys book of whines not the wines

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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 11h

A central strength of Separation of Church and Hate is the way it subverts the familiar rhetorical gambits used by many political and religious apologists to shield questionable policies from ethical scrutiny by invoking a supposedly monolithic biblical authority

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Separation of Church and Hate: Religion in Public Life

John Fugelsang’s Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person’s Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds arrives at a moment when the intersection of re...

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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 11h

Unless you’re a recent migrant, most of us had relatives who fought for Oz under our flag, many have relatives who died, defending Aussie values … if their ghosts could come back … they wouldn’t recognise the values perused by March For Australia … our forefathers didn’t march arm in arm with Nazis

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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 3d

😉👍

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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 3d

This isn’t me…

'I have never experienced the level of lack of cultural safety as I’ve experienced here' - Indigenous executive slams ACT Public Service

Nothing has changed in the last 20 years … one of the main problems is the ACT Solicitor General

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'I have never experienced the level of lack of cultural safety as I’ve experienced here' - Indigenous executive slams ACT Public Service

An Aboriginal senior executive disclosed on Thursday that the ACT Public Service is the most culturally unsafe workplace he has ever experienced.The head of the Office of Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 3d

I just caught two reds under the bed … read Antifa for red…

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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 3d

In slanted sun, the elders sit,
Their hands a map of years and wit –
Wrinkled skin, a thousand lines
Tracing constellations time defines

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The Secret Spells of the Old

In slanted sun, the elders sit, Their hands a map of years and wit – Wrinkled skin, a thousand lines Tracing constellations time defines. Within their eyes, moonlight rests, A flicker kept safe in the...

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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 3d

Things that didn’t happen…

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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 4d

Trump had openly, if disdainfully, campaigned for the prize, pushing through a Gaza peace deal before the Friday announcement by the Norwegian Nobel Committee – a factor that played a role in his timeline for a ceasefire

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White House slams Trump’s perceived Nobel peace prize snub as ‘politics over peace’ — Guardian Australia

President has ‘heart of humanitarian’, spokesperson says after unsuccessful bid for prize amid Gaza ceasefire deal

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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 5d

Nobel peace prize 2025 live: María Corina Machado wins for work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela

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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 5d

I wrote this when I was living on the streets as a teen…

In alleyways where hunger curls,
beneath tin roofs and spindly girls –
life rattles in shopping carts,
old bottles and torn-apart hearts.

blakandblack.com/2025/10/10/a...

A Moment on the Streets

I wrote this when I was living on the streets as a teen.

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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 6d

A question that I’m sure will be studied by political scientists for millennia … can you successfully govern a country of 330 million people with an administration made up largely of former Fox News hosts and former podcasters 🤷🏽‍♂️

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mick12345.bsky.social @mick12345.bsky.social · 6d

My bag of frozen chips has more intelligence, compassion and common sense than the combined phonp.

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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 6d

The fish n chip shop gossip is trying to drive division in the community AGAIN‼️

Pauline Hanson’s sustained campaign of alarmist rhetoric about immigration has once again returned to the centre of public debate and it deserves a careful & sober rebuttal

blakandblack.com/2025/10/09/d...

Debunking Pauline Hanson’s Anti-Immigration Rhetoric: A Fact-Based Critique

Blaming the costs of living, lack of housing and cultural issues to migration ignores the benefits, including economic growth and prosperity.

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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 7d

A key element of Agnes Heller’s
philosophy was the concept of shame, which she argued was culturally bound. Unlike fear and joy, both primal emotions, shame is conditioned by the society in which we live. To feel shame is to believe that we’ve failed…

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Ágnes Heller: Shame and the Moral Compass

Shame is not a primal instinct, but a conditioned response, one based on the values we develop as we mature.

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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 8d

He kneels, yet will not bow his head –
Night gathers round, the field is lost,
But from his wounds and earth-stained skin
Still blazes pride, undimmed by cost.
His sword lies broken at his side,
Fragments glinting in failing day,
Yet in his grasp remains the will

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Undefeated

He kneels, yet will not bow his head – Night gathers round, the field is lost, But from his wounds and earth-stained skin Still blazes pride, undimmed by cost. His sword lies broken at his side, Fragm...

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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 7d

Man there are a lot of clumsy bastards in Russia…

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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 8d

He kneels, yet will not bow his head –
Night gathers round, the field is lost,
But from his wounds and earth-stained skin
Still blazes pride, undimmed by cost.
His sword lies broken at his side,
Fragments glinting in failing day,
Yet in his grasp remains the will

blakandblack.com/2025/10/07/u...

Undefeated

He kneels, yet will not bow his head – Night gathers round, the field is lost, But from his wounds and earth-stained skin Still blazes pride, undimmed by cost. His sword lies broken at his side, Fragm...

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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 8d

New people moving in next door. The old house was built some 80 years ago by a “new Australian” who left the Soviet bloc drawn to Australia by the Snowy Mountains project. The new young owners, seeing opportunity willing to work, have decided to renovate

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On the value of everything and nothing

There's nothing valuable about mediocrity, especially when the gains are easily won.

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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 8d

… or another one to Obama 😉

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 8d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Jorj, Interim DEITY🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦💪🏽 @just-jorj.bsky.social · 8d

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 8d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
trib.al/9Sxu9IN

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Ewart, Dave @davidewart.bsky.social · Mar 13

@keanebernard.bsky.social "Albanese must ignore the bootlickers, get off his knees and punch back at Trump"

i respectfully disagree . no good would come of that . say nothing and move on . otherwise its just theatrics

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